@coliver said:

Contact NTG I'm pretty sure they can do it without pushing any products. Although there is a fee it is probably worth it.

Yes, and.... yes.

Here is the site I was on.. but when I visit now, there is no prompt.

I suppose it's possible I visited another page in a different tab, then killed the tab, and the prompt at the bottom of IE 11 stayed across tabs.

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@scottalanmiller said:

No, I meant the two Program Files directories, as there isn't just one unless you are running 32bit.

Yeah I did forget about that - never really understood the reason for that split - the users sure the heck don't care!

@IT-ADMIN said:

oh, sad to hear that, almost all of my download are from sourceforge, can website like this include ransmware in the downloaded software ???

Very possible. Relatively unlikely as they would never have customers again, but it could happen. Bloatware is very likely, though.

@Dashrender said:

As far as I know
RTO = Recover Time Objective - The amount of time it will take to get a failed system back online

RPO = Recover Point Objective - How much data do I loose from this moment backward.

Und? 🙂

Good point, let's start a new topic on Split Horizon DNS. When to use it and if it makes sense in your case 🙂

KMS does work, I've tried it three times so far - works like a charm.

@Dashrender said:

I've heard of stories about cops taking people's Go-Pros/recorders/whatever to destroy evidence. Not a huge deal in the US, but elsewhere, who knows.

This happens all the time in the US.Definitely something you need to worry about here.

The smallest, cheapest option would be a Synology DS214 two bay, RAID 1 NAS unit. It will do GigE NFS or iSCSI or SMB, and you can put 7200 RPM or even 10K drives in it. $299 for the NAS, then whatever for two drives.

If the asset breaks while applying the tag, well, it wasn't worth it 😉

@Dashrender said:

@dafyre said:

There are a few of using it here already... Me and @johnhooks, and a couple other folks, I think.

Hey, what am I chopped liver 😉

Not any more. You've been upgraded to ground beef. (I didn't know you were using it already).

@adam-ierymenko I'm guessing the laptop was off two+ days. The user only uses it two days a week at most.

@gjacobse said:

Will this be a thread that escalates quickly?

I hope to keep it curtailed to just the facts - if you want to whine or better - ask for help regarding an issue/outage, please make another thread.

I see.

@JaredBusch said:

@Dashrender said:

I'll consider changing it when I move to the flat network...

You are not on a flat network? That is how it works. You can have as many DHCP servers as you want as long as they do not see each other.

No, I have several subnets. The networks see each other through a router.

I'm not sure what you mean that you can have many DHCP servers as long as they don't see each other?

In my current setup, at this branch location of 10 PC's and 16 phones I have two DHCP servers. Each provide IPs for a different range in the same subnet. The Mitel PBX has a DHCP server but only responds to Mac addresses belonging to Mitel phones. The windows DHCP will respond to everything. My question was - what happens if the Windows server responds to a phone faster than the Mitel DHCP server? I'm guessing the phone wouldn't work.

This branch will probably always be on a different subnet (local to that location), but my main office has 5 /24 subnets.. I'd like to move them to one /22 subnet.

Adam - welcome to the community and overlay networking!

Not trying to hijack the thread as this appears to be a ZT feature request topic, but since Pertino has come up a number of times, here are the answers:

DNS: PITA. We solved it by using customer internal DNS in AD environments. This is a solution for many customers, but not the end all. Without some type of local integration, overlay networks can never really be used for an internal company network because protocols will not translate.

Free plans: all trials revert to a free network for up to 3 devices; existing free plans with more devices are still live - thanks beta testers! Take the class-action suit to LMI 😘

Chef/Puppet: you can automate Pertino installs with your orchestration tools. We even have a Docker compatible client for cloud-bursting, cross-DC networking

LDAP integration/custom UI: We've got some APIs already available, some in the works. Plan is to make it so if you don't want to, you never have to enter the Pertino console.

Best,
Josh

@Dashrender said:

How did training go for users that needed to use TS/RDS for somethings, but not others? How do you manage favorites between their desktop and the RDS session? Do you only publish IE for those things? of a full desktop?

It's still pretty darn expensive no matter what way you slice it...

It's no different than users than need to use other RDS for GreatPlains and other applications via RDP. We don't do published apps as it causes some issues with some apps, it's all full desktops. We don't do anything with their favorites, they just copy paste a link to it if they need something with flash or java, It's not meant to be their main workspace just for sites that get blocked at the network firewall (Palo Alto's in the datacenter) level for desktops because we block flash and java. Doesn't really cost much to add an additional RDP server (you just need user cals for max concurrent users, not for all users) , and the cost is very minimal compared to the impact on security java and flash have, many infections come from those anymore, and we have to report any infections or breaches publicly as a publicly traded company. IMO a RDS is what in most cases should be considered over VDI, a VDI only needs to be looked at if there are limitations that RDS could not handle.

True. But a lot of email systems adopted the SPF record type and would not accept email from you if your system wasn't set up with one. I ran into that a few times before actually setting it up.

I always wondered why they just didn't use a TXT record for it, lol...

He's from NZ. We've spoken offline before.

@scottalanmiller said:

SATA SSDs often make sense because they are cheaper and the protocol benefits of SAS really are not there in the same ways for SSDs.

So this brings up @DustinB3403 question of best practice or more aptly as you @scottalanmiller said implementation patterns - which ones as generically as you can be would go which way. I suppose it might be easier to say 'in these set of circumstances (list 1-4) you do this, generally in the rest you do that.'